quaternity

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The first section presents a model for the human identity based on Jung's quaternity, and argues that our modern psychological and social problems stem largely from imbalance between the four elements of our identity.

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  1. The state of being four; the condition of making up the number four. The number of four stands much admired, not only in the quaternity of the elements, which are the principles of bodies, but in the letters of the name of God. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 12.
  2. A group of four. So that their whole scale, of all that is above body, was indeed not a trinity, but a quarternity, or four ranks and degrees of beings one below another. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 557.
  3. [capitalized] Especially, the union of four persons in one godhead. Compare trinity, 3. [The Marcosians] instead of a Trinity … held a Quaternity composed of Ineffability, of Silence, of the Father, and of the Truth. Echard, Eccles. Hist. p. 349. N. E. D.

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  • Understanding of what is, and what to do, requires a balance of this quaternity.
  • The first section presents a model for the human identity based on Jung's quaternity, and argues that our modern psychological and social problems stem largely from imbalance between the four elements of our identity. —  How to Save the World
  • I've written about the quaternity at least obliquely before, from a short winter story I wrote four years ago. —  How to Save the World
  • With our love to the entire quaternity of you, Yours ever, —  Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter
  • Catholic Faith, which is that the same Christ is perfect man and God, and that He who is perfect man and God is One God and Son of Man, that, however, quaternity is not added to the Trinity by the addition of human nature to perfect Godhead, but that one and the same Person completes the number of the Trinity, so that, although it was the manhood which suffered, yet God can be said to have suffered, not by manhood becoming —  The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
 

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  1. = French quaternité; as quatern + -ity.
 

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